With a recent update, many famous Runescape NPCs received some graphical improvements. This latest devlog explains which ones.

After some improvements to the audio system released last week, the Runescape dev team informed us that they had to turn off some of the newest features because of an uninspected increased on the servers load.

In an attempt to fight gold selling and other RTM trades, Runescape has changed the policy regarding in-game trades. Starting from now, it will not be possible anymore to do any in game unbalanced trade.
The official explanation follows.

Here is the second part of the article describing how summoning will work in Runescape, once it will be released in January 2008. The first part is available here .

With this article, the Runescape developers announces the release of a new game system, scheduled for release on January 2008, which will allow players to summon creatures to fight at their side.

Player Vs player combat in Runescape begins a new era with the newest 64 players arena. Players already begin to fight each other with high hopes of winning 64 times the amount of their original stakes.

The Runescape official website has a new development diary from the Audio Team. The article introduces the people working on Runescape musics and sound effects and describes the tools they use for their job.

The Runescape Pest Control minigame has been updated with difficulty levels, new rewards and more playability.

The month of July will be full of surprises for Runescape players. The Mithril Dragon will make its first appearance, graphics for ducks, birds and terrorbirds will be updated, the maximum number of player house rooms will be increased and many many more things will come. Give a look at the full list!

With their first Improvement project update, the Runescape developers introduced some new game features but mainly improved some existing ones, following the player suggestions.
Let's check together the complete list of changes in this update.